The infinite tension that we endure in the spanish politics It has its costs. Among them, one that is evident to anyone who looks at current events without the gaze of the sectarian: We do not dedicate time to what is important but to what scandalizes us the most. We talk more about Koldo and Aldama than about microchips, more about Santos Cerdán than about the climate crisis. And that, although we can understand it, is paid for by our increasing inconsequentiality as a country.
A year after Sánchez achieved yet another investiture in exchange for impunity for Puigdemont and massive concessions for the right-wing and left-wing independentists who lend him their votes in Congress, The Government is entangled in I don’t know how many judicial issues and is limited to surviving in the company of what remains of Sumar. And that must be told. But we should make the effort to dedicate a little more time in the public conversation to other things than describing, day after day, how Pedro Sánchez survives his troubles and troubles.
If we can have the feeling that Europe does not know how to respond to the challenges of a world that is deglobalizing while witnessing the fight between the United States and China for the scepter of the world, imagine what feeling we are giving as a country. Spain has immense potential as a territory with abundant clean and non-polluting energy. And its geographical position allows it to be a privileged player in the world league of freight traffic. But it shows no signs of having a plan as a country that will beyond continuing to ask for loans from Europe to continue surviving based on Next Generation funds.
We are contradictory. We are content to be a country of services in a world where everyone competes to have more industries. But we barely dedicate a few pages of newspapers to talking about productivity, climate change, new energies, technology, artificial intelligence, quality employment or innovation. And then we want to be treated as if we were knocking on the door of the G-7 on our own merits when, in reality, what we spend much of our energy doing is fighting among ourselves while the world changes around us. Not to think about how we consciously committed suicide.